Just things I found interesting enough to point my phone camera at in recent weeks. They rotate public art installations on the...

It was the 5th Anniversary of San Francisco Ocean Beach monthly hot rod gatherings. This is a very eclectic, chill group of gearheads....

I tried a new city job with the Department of Building Inspection; it didn't work out. So now I'm back in my double-wide cubicle at Human...

Michelangelo knocked out his iconic frescoe painting of the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in four years (1508-1512), working 18 hours a...

"Mildred Howard's 'Untold Histories/Hidden Truths' drapes statues of Peter Burnett, William Gwin, and Francis Scott Key in striking red...

Father's Day at the monthly SFOB car gathering, Great Highway & Lincoln Blvd. Every 3rd Sunday of the month, 7am-11am. Another...

The long-running, beloved annual fundraiser hosted by the SF fine arts museums. In recent years it's been exclusively at the de Young....

America loves winning -- and completely ignores failing. That's why it took a Swedish psychologist, Doctor Samuel West, to come up with...

17th hole at Lincoln Park golf course, it surrounds the Legion of Honor fine arts museum. Powell Street cable car turnaround. Car #24, go...

I wasn't familiar with Wayne Thiebaud. But I found his philosophy interesting. If I understood correctly, it wasn't enough for him to...

This lonely relic from the past, a landline payphone, was seen in the Powell Street Station. Not bad for being completely man-made. In...

The future meets the past, at the monthly Ocean Beach meeting of car nation. Spring has sprung at Stow Lake/Blue Heron Lake in Golden...

The USS Hornet (CV-12), a WWII-era Essex-class aircraft carrier, is a floating museum docked in Alameda. It's only a 20-minute boat ride...

San Francisco's iconic Coit Tower was built in 1933, and so was its rickety elevator. It's been broken for over a year, because they...

The new Paul McCartney exhibit at the de Young. An inside look at the birth of Beatlemania. Very inside. Paul McCartney recently...

I haven't had much time and energy recently for photo editing and posting. So relatively Recent & Random. Medieval prison cell? No,...

As the title suggests, random images captured around SF lately. The casting pools in Golden Gate Park around Thanksgiving. Daring to be...

"Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was the most celebrated woman artist of her time." When just being a woman artist was a celebrated...

Welcome to the Old Car Picnic in Speedway Meadow of Golden Gate Park . Hundreds of vintage cars. Foreign and domestic, in every color,...

Tamara de Lempicka, AKA "The Queen of Art Deco." A bold, unique style well suited to her times. It seems to find the visual sweet spot...